By Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport.

Miguel Cotto got back in the win column and put himself back into the present tense after scoring a strange 9th round TKO over an injured Yuri Foreman in Yankee Stadium last night. Arthur Mercante Jr., perhaps caught in a time warp that sent him back to the 1900s when fighters took more abuse than pack mules in a frontier mining town, refused to acknowledge the white towel of surrender thrown into the ring by the Foreman camp in the 8th round and allowed the fight to continue. He finally called a halt to the bout after Foreman was dropped by a bodyshot in the ninth. Even during the unregulated bareknuckle days, pre-Marquis of Queensberry Rules, the sponge or the towel tossed into the ring was respected, but, for one night at least, progress was suspended in the name of God knows what. Read the rest here...